Chef Rowley Leigh is making his comeback to the kitchen at the age of 74 this month, working alongside executive chef Mahdi Chawki at the Don restaurant in the City of London. Rowley, who made his name at Le Poulbot, Kensington Place and Le Café Anglais, has designed a menu based on classic simplicity and […]
⦿ The Observer’s Jay Rayner reviewed Sambal Shiok, Mandy Yin’s Malaysian evenings-only pop-up at Blend café in Harringay, where he was impressed by the Singapore-style laksa. “Boy, is it good. The broth is thick, making it more a stew than a soup. It is the Fisher-Price Activity Centre of food, with just so much to see and do and […]
Gardening enthusiasts will this weekend head to the Chelsea Flower Show to see what the Royal Horticultural Society has on offer for 2015. And one might think that being so close to Sloane Square there would be no shortage of handy dining destinations for the green-fingered throngs. But, despite the constant upgrading of this most well-heeled […]